Council has again shot down the police department’s request for funding to put CCTV security cameras all along the Downtown Mall. #
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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Good, and hopefully they understand the word “no” this time instead of coming back again and again like a 3 year old.
We already have little enough privacy in our lives without being on camera all the time, though I’m sure there are enough private cameras on the mall to cover most everything.
Ahhhhh…Waldo… watch your bias in your wording. Fox has lost it creditability as much as the Guardian. Your smart, you will get it.
I have absolutely no idea of what you’re talking about. It’s a straightforward, single-sentence story. I’m perfectly happy to interject my opinion, and have never claimed to do otherwise, but I haven’t done so here.
“shot down” brings a value judgement with it, as opposed to say “denied.” So I will go out on a limb and say you were opposed to the cameras, which is why I bring it to attention. Your board, your rules as they say: with you always being very candid when it is your opinion. But a certain value judgement seemed to slip into the wording.
That and any time I can give some grief to a liberal media person….well…I admit it….its like crack to me… ;-)
I call bullshit. There’s no value judgement behind “shot down.” In fact, if anything, I think it’d be the opposite of your claim. To shoot something down implies that one thing was in flight—an airplane, a bird, whatever—and something else was safely on the ground. “Sniper” is the word we use for somebody who does that, and there’s a reason why our opponents have “snipers” and we have “sharpshooters”—because it’s seen as cowardly to hide at a great distance and shoot things down.
Nope, I’m definitely not buying it. The onus is on you to prove that there’s a value judgement behind the phrase “shot down,” and I’ll happily wager that you can’t do so.
Nope. If a girl “shoots down” your attempt at a date it is definitely a bigger deal than a “gentle no.”
Your playing with semantics. But let me ask you this, when you were asking girls out on dates would you prefer to have been “shot down,” or received a simple , “no” of denial.
Now you’re talking about something different, Dan. Before, your implication was that saying the request was “shot down” carried with it a value judgment about the merits of the request. That, as I’ve demonstrated, is entirely wrong. But what you’re saying now is that “shot down” means that the request was denied in a fashion more significant than it could have been. On that I agree—that’s precisely what I meant to say.
The police have repeatedly sought approval and funding for this project, and they have repeatedly failed to do so. This time, Chief Longo went to Council and asked for funding for several efforts, bundling them all together in a single request, and they all were denied, despite the support of some local business and resident groups. Council said that they’re too expensive and that there’s no evidence that they’ll do any good. “Shot down” is definitely the phrase to describe that.